Results tagged “Meeting Report” from London 2600 meetings

I wasn't able to attend this meet but from what I heard it was an excellent meet. One regular, said it was the best meet that he had ever attended! It was a small cosy meet. Rather than 30 - 60 people turning up throughout the duration of the meet. It was a quiet 18.

The role of London 2600 'meet & greet' at the Trocadero. Was taken by Zap and 3 others, one of the three wearing the group T-shirt. Which helps the n00bs identify us, this can get difficult from time to time. For example, this month there was again the bull ride, crazy gulf & street dancers. The street dancers were having a competition. Have to get some photos of that, as some of them perform amazing feats. With all this hustle and bustle it can be difficult for the n00bs to find us. But find us the 2 n00bs from Imperial College did.

At 19:30 the 6 attendees headed off to our secondary meeting location. The pub. To have drinks and chat until closing time, is the usual custom. Through out the evening the other 12 attendees turned up. Notable of which were:

A new London 2600 member (bought down by one of our regular old skool members) who had been to New York 2600 and one of the Australia 2600 meets.

A London 2600 member who had attended this years 'The Next HOPE' in New York.

One old skool member. Who hadn't been down for 7 or 8 years. This gave the older members an opportunity to talk about old friends.

Zap bought down an EeePC 701 running Mac OS 7.5.5. He had the following to say on the ailing list. "The emulator was running in Free Dos on a 2GB SD memory card. I chose Free DOS as it is freely and legally available but any version of DOS will do. The Mac emulator emulates an old 68K Mac and runs at a reasonable speed. You will need to obtain a ROM image from a Mac as it is not included with the emulator for legal reasons. Google will help."

Swag giveaway:

Swiss Army knife pen drive

Wireless web cam

PCI wireless card, 54G

USB to Ethernet adapter

That was just what two people picked up. There was much more.

One of our members brought down some satellite transmitters. Check the mailing list archive if you'd like them. (Sorry about the unsigned SSL certificate, you'll have to add an exception to your web browser for that.)

Among the topics discussed and in no particular order:

Cracking Sky default WPA keys, based on SSID's

Old skoll virus writing, including the destruction of the authors own college work!

Satellite kit

Discussion of a new London 2600 secondary meeting location

The current Wikileaks scenario

Adrian "I am a cock" Lamo, surprise, surprise

The latest WPA2 vulnerability, that wasn't a vulnerability

This years 'The Next HOPE', including but not limited to:

Steve Rambam's latest privacy is dead talk

The wikileaks keynote by Jacob Appelbaum and the circus that surrounded him during HOPE and blackhat

Jacob Appelbaum's phone seizure that could *possibly *result in Julian Assange's location being pinpointed by U.S. authorities

Attending the next HOPE in 2012

The 2 n00bs from Imperial found the meet interesting, one of which was taking a plentiful quantity of notes with his high tech 'pen & paper version 1.0'.

That about it wraps it up for this meeting report. I look forward to seeing YOU at the next London 2600 meet.

UPDATE: 25th August 2010

Zap's EeePC running Mac OS 7.5.5 included Internet Explorer 4.01.

Extra to: Swag giveaway

USB hubs

Bluetooth access point

Extra to: Among the topics discussed and in no particular order:

Discussion about Wikileaks and their 'insurance' file (http://leakmirror.wikileaks.org/file/straw-glass-and-bottle/insurance.aes256 - 1.4GB).

Here is a taste of some of the sort of things we chatted about this month - our version of the Chatham House Rule applies, so nobody is directly identified, in order to promote open communication, even on controversial, sensitive or potentially illegal topics.

This is not a substitute for coming along to the meetings in person: - remember that everyone is welcome, no matter your age or experience or skills (or lack of them), from both sides of the legal fence.

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Here is a taste of some of the sort of things we chatted about this month - our version of the Chatham House Rule applies, so nobody is directly identified, in order to promote open communication, even on controversial, sensitive or potentially illegal topics.

This is not a substitute for coming along to the meetings in person: - remember that everyone is welcome, no matter your age or experience or skills (or lack of them), from both sides of the legal fence.

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Here is a taste of some of the sort of things we chatted about this month...

This is not a substitute for coming along to the meetings in person: - remember that everyone is welcome, no matter your age or experience or skills (or lack of them), from both sides of the legal fence.

About this blog

N.B. the quarterly 2600 magazine is now rarely available in London shops.

Everybody who is interested in computer and telecomms security and the impact of technology on society
is welcome, from both sides of the fence, no matter what your age or level of skill and experience - nobody knows it all, no matter what they claim.

You could learn more at these free meetings than from months of study or investigation on your own, but this depends on what you are willing to share and contribute in return. We are mostly British and therefore somewhat shy in public, but it is easy to strike up a conversation with most of us.

London 2600 meet on the first Friday of each month, 6.30pm to 7.30pm initially, at the frront entrance of the
Trocadero shopping centre,
then on elsewhere.

The kinds of people who have attended over the last 25 years or so include:

@London_2600 Twitter feed

Google Calendar

If you have taken the usual security and privacy precautions e.g. private browsing mode, strict cookie and history deletion policies etc. in your web browser, you may feel that you can trust Google Calendar to remind you about the next London 2600 meeting, and other events of interest.

Geekery.in Calendar

(The) Hacker(s) Voice Radio / Magazine / TV

"HVR is an online radio show set up as an vocal forum for all the UK hackers and phreaks to come together, work together and a place to share information."

(The) Hacker(s) Voice people have expanded into producing a (.pdf) and printed Magazine, called The Hacker Voice Digest, and have plans for Video as well as their internet radio streams and podcasts etc.

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Free Gary McKinnon, who lives in London, is accused of hacking in to over 90 US military computer systems, and is facing extradition to the USA under the controversial Extradition Act 2003, without any prima facie evidence or charges brought against him in a UK court. Try him here in the UK, under UK law.

Tor - the onion routing network - "Tor aims to defend against traffic analysis, a form of network surveillance that threatens personal anonymity and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security. Communications are bounced around a distributed network of servers called onion routers, protecting you from websites that build profiles of your interests, local eavesdroppers that read your data or learn what sites you visit, and even the onion routers themselves."

Other 2600 meeting links

2600 Tor Server Project

Obviously if you incorporate the campaign button code above onto your website, without alteration, then we will have access to some of your Communications Traffic Data, and so will anyone who is snooping on us.

Campaign Links

Free Gary McKinnon - or at least try him in the UK, rather than extraditing him to the USA. Gary is accused of hacking in to over 90 US Military computer systems, including some in the Pentagon, National Security Agency, Army, Navy and Air Force, NASA, etc. for over 2 years. He is facing extradition to the USA, under the notorious Extradition Act 2003, without any prima facie evidence, rather than being tried in the UK. He could face a Guantanamo Bay style Military Tribunal and over 60 years in prison ! This case has dragged on now for over 9 years !

Free Babar Ahmad - another British (Muslim) IT worker from London, also facing extradition to the USA, also at risk of a Military Tribunal, facing terrorism charges not for running websites etc., relating to activities in Afghanistan and Chechnya, which were not illegal in the UK.

Several people on their way to London 2600 meetings have fallen foul of the anti-terrorism hysteria which swept London after the terrorist bomb attacks of July 2005. You cannot really blame the general public and Police for being suspicious, if you bring along a mysterious looking bit of electronic equipment in your rucksack, with lots of wires, batteries and gaffer tape, no matter how innocent it really is.

However, none of us should tolerate Police behaviour and policies like those which resulted the arrest of David Mery, one of our respected long standing attendees. He was stopped, searched and arrested on a Tube station, and his flat was searched and computers and other equipment seized, for no good reason at all. He was lucky that he was not shot and killed by the Police. See Innocent in London" and "Techie and terrorist behavioural profiles are the same"

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If you are arrested, then get some legal advice from a firm of solicitors before you say or admit to anyhing whatsoever to the Police e.g. top rated human rights specialists Bindmans & Partners - 020 7833 4433 or Kaim Todner (who represent London hacker Gary McKinnon) - 020 7353 6660 (24 hour Police Station callout)